Associate General Counsel

**Company Description**
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

(i) drafting high value, complex, sale side agreements

(ii) leading the negotiation of legal and commercial areas of risk, with support from other stakeholders

(iii) distilling / summarizing key areas of risk (on a priority basis) in order to escalate and seek approval for waivers of risk from senior executives across multiple functions.
- Responsible for providing strategic corporate and commercial legal advice across John Crane, APAC supporting on all legal matters including M&A (with support from CoE), commercial, technology, data protection, real estate and compliance related matters. Leveraging support of CoE colleagues as required.
- Primary responsibility will be supporting JC colleagues to negotiate and draft high value, complex, sale-side contracts with John Crane customers across the region.
- Additional responsibility to support Procurement colleagues across the region who manage John Crane supply chain.
- Additional responsibility to support John Crane Digital Team (based in UK and US) with drafting of Digital supply and customer contracts (including for SaaS), and all template agreements.
- Responsible for supporting SVP and GC, Ethics & Compliance, General Counsel, India and General Counsel, APAC to manage and oversee all ethics and compliance related issues in the region.
- Prime contact for key John Crane stakeholders, including portfolio managers, GMs and HRBPs for regions in scope in addition to other senior stakeholders
- Negotiation of key contracts with JC customers, partners and suppliers and management of legal issues arising from those contracts.
- Oversight of agents and distributor contracts with support of JC Contracts Manager.
- Legal Support for root cause analysis reviews in the event of customer quality issues.
- Familiarity with data protection and GDPR compliance related issues to the extent relevant to drafting and negotiation of digital and technology contracts.
- With support of Group E&C, provide legal support to Trade Compliance team to manage operational impact of sanctions on JC.
- Business partnering with key stakeholders on "blue sky thinking" to develop legal models aligned to commercialization of new products.
- With the support of colleagues in Group E&C, manage ESG related responses to customer questionnaires.
- Compliance and other legal training for JC colleagues in sales and other functions. You should note that your title and job description are not exhaustive and the Company may require you from time to time to undertake other reasonable tasks within your capacity.

**Qualifications**
Required Law School Bachelor's Degree Qualified Law A qualified lawyer from an accredited law school in APAC.
1. Private practice experience in a corporate or commercial practice group within a law firm covering both local and international matters.

2. Corporate / Commercial experience in a senior in‑house role.

3. Extensive commercial contracting experience - specifically negotiation of high value, complex, sale-side contracts.

4. Risk review experience - i.e. escalation of risk issues to senior executive stakeholders Digital / Technology / Software Legal experience - specifically drafting of supplier and/or customer Digital contracts, especially for SaaS. Oil / gas sector experience EU data protection experience Comments English - Fluent (written & spoke) - must be able to draft and negotiate complex contracts in English.

**Technical Knowledge and Skills**
- Strong technical drafting skills with demonstrable experience of drafting a variety of corporate and commercial agreements / documents, particularly seller focused agreements (for both products and services).
- Wide negotiation skills / experience. Specifically experience of negotiating high value / high risk commercial contracts with vendors and customers.
- Strong Digital / Technology skills, particularly with negotiation and drafting of SaaS and technology